If you want the latest Thunderbird 2.0...or any T-bird that we don't have packaged:

Once you get that far, ask about setting up /opt/*** in your PATH and/or adding a launcher in your desktop environment.

Hope that helps!

LLL

Didn't seem to have tbird in the repositories so i downloade from Mozilla.org. LLL's instructions worked. i created a desktop link to run it bbut it doesn't show up in the applications list. is this because it is in the /opt location?

I think it has more to do with a missing .desktop file that should have been placed in /usr/share/applications. You can create your own by simply using one of those as a template (for instance seamonkey-mail.desktop) and modify the lines for thunderbird.

Another alternative - which seems easier - is to download the latest Slackware package if it's more up to date. Once it's downloaded just right-click and select install. No hassles, and menu entries added automatically. As I understand it Slackware packages don't have dependency checking, but it's not a problem for many installs. I just upgraded Thunderbird 1.5 to 2.004 this way.